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Outwood Academy City Fields, formerly Wakefield City Academy, is a mixed
secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...
with academy status, located in
Wakefield Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, ...
, England. It has over 600 pupils ages 11 to 16 on roll, and its current headteacher is Michelle Colledge-Smith.


History

Wakefield City High School was a
foundation school In England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in community schools. Foundation schools were set up under the School Standards and Framework A ...
administered by Wakefield Council. In January 2011 the school was renamed Wakefield City Academy when it became an academy and the first school to be sponsored by Wakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT). WCAT came under criticism for executive spending in a leaked government report that also noted Wakefield City Academy's inability to produce records of
pupil premium The pupil premium is a grant given by the government to schools in England to decrease the attainment gap for the most disadvantaged children, whether by income or by family upheaval. For each pupil who is eligible for free school meals, or has clai ...
payments. In September 2017, WCAT announced that it was seeking to cease operation and have its schools transferred to alternate sponsor organisations. In July 2018, the school joined
Outwood Grange Academies Trust Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT) is a multi-academy trust (MAT) that operates forty schools (twenty-eight secondary and twelve primary) across northern England and the East Midlands. It is an exempt charity, regulated by the Department for E ...
and was renamed Outwood Academy City Fields. It continues to coordinate with Wakefield Council for admissions.


Curriculum

Wakefield City Academy offers GCSEs, BTECs and
City and Guilds The City and Guilds of London Institute is an educational organisation in the United Kingdom. Founded on 11 November 1878 by the City of London and 16 livery companies – to develop a national system of technical education, the institute has ...
courses as programmes of study for pupils.


Controversy


Flattening the grass assemblies

In 2019 former teachers at, Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth, another trust school reported a practice of intimidating 'flattening the grass assemblies', which the trust denied. Schoolsweek described what happened at a Flattening the grass assembly at Outwood Academy City Fields. They quoted a teacher.
“I’ve never seen anything like it. They were shouting in the faces of any children that were slouching. “Those first assemblies were very, very harsh… The atmosphere was poisonous… The people that were in there were just downright nasty towards the pupils.”
Again the trust denied the accusation.


References


External links

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Letter announcing the closure of the trust 9 September 2017
Secondary schools in the City of Wakefield Schools in Wakefield Academies in the City of Wakefield City Fields {{Yorkshire-school-stub